The Hunt (2022)
The Hunt is an in-game Easter event that runs from April 7th to April 19th. It is similar with last year, it keeps the egg hunt, the site NPCs, and the pod implant drops. However as of April 7 the pods drop expired keys.
Note that activating the gate will consume a key regardless whether you manage to jump or not. The gate can be activated multiple times consuming multiple keys and the gate does not stay unlocked.
Combat sites
Guristas Hunt Outpost
This is the combat site that appears throughout New Eden including Wormholes with the event.
It is pretty similar with last year's event, but with a new boss.
The site appears as a Combat anomaly in the Probe Scanner window. Once warp to the site is initiated the site will also appear as a Beacon in the overview, revealing to everyone in the system that someone has warped to it.
Only T1, T2, and Faction Frigates and Destroyers can enter the site.
The site consists of two deadspace pockets, both behind Acceleration Gates.
The first room has five waves of frigates, destroyers and occasional cruisers. Once all waves are dead, the acceleration gate to the last room becomes active. Sometimes the acceleration gate becomes active before the last wave.
Accessing the final room requires a Hunt Acceleration Gate Key. The gate does not stay open for other people for 10 seconds after activation like other locked gates do. So everyone who wants to enter the final room needs their own key.
The final room has a single Hunt Jackdaw, supported by a couple towers. This NPC and the other boss in room 1 drops the valuable loot.
The site can be completed in a destroyer tanked against kinetic/thermal damage.
But take care, most frigates warp disrupt/scramble, web and neut, as well as the Automated Drone and the Jackdaw. In the first room, there are NPCs that deal damage aside from kinetic and thermal. Hunt Griffin deals Explosive damage and ECM, Hunt Kestrel deals EM damages, Hunt Blackbird deals massive explosive damage and ECM, Hunt Caracal deals massive EM damage. Additionally it is said they the NPCs like to agress Drones, so using a Drone Boat might be suboptimal.
The 'Hunt' rats have rather poor loot tables so don't bother looting.
The rats are weakest against EM and thermal damage. Kinetic damage is almost as good but explosive damage is not very good against them.
Loot
Known loot drops for standard event Combat sites are: Common:
- 7th to 12th Tier Overseer´s Personal Effects, which can be sold to CONCORD NPC buy orders,
- Fireworks (Naughty People variant),
- Abyssal Filaments,
- Guristas Pirate Faction clothing ('Fatal Elite', etc.)
- Volatile (time limited) Event Boosters as well as regular Boosters
Rare:
- Ship SKINS (Hunters Quiver, Guristas)
- Guristas Pirate Faction Modules
- Gecko Blueprint copies
- Korako's Modified Drone Control Unit
- Black Market 'Valdimar' Drone Durability DD-1001, DD-1003 and DD-1005
- Black Market 'Valdimar' Repair Drone Operation DR-901, DR-903 and DR-905
- Black Market 'Valdimar' Drone Sharpshooting DS-801, DS-803 and DS-905
- Black Market 'Valdimar' Drone Navigation DN-701, DN-703 and DN-705
First pocket
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0-2 x Frigate Hunt Worm 
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0-2 x Frigate Hunt Griffin | 
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0-3 x Destroyer Hunt Corax
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0-1 x Cruiser Hunt Blackbird |
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0-1 x Cruiser Hunt Caracal
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1 x Commander Frigate Guristas Automated VHF-08/VHF-21 |
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Second pocket
You face a single boss rat in this room and some sentries.
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1 x Commander Destroyer Hunt Jackdaw
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4 x Sentry Hunt EM/Explosive/Thermal/Kinetic Missile Battery
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1 x Sentry Hunt Stasis Webifier Tower |
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1 x Sentry Hunt Energy Neutralizer Tower |
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1 x Guristas Bunker
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Data sites
These are the Data sites, Hunt Data Relay, that appear throughout New Eden with the event.
A special advanced version, Huntmaster Data Relay, appears solely in Caldari Lowsec and in the Nullsec region of Venal.
The site appears as a signature in the probe scanner window that must be scanned down before being warpable.
The standard event site is a Level III Data site called Hunt Data Relay and consists of an initial warp-in area with 4 cans of green difficulty and an Acceleration Gate with requires a Key to activate it. This Key will then be consumed.
Hacking all four cans in the first room will despawn the whole site from the Probe window.
The second room contains another 5 cans of yellow difficulty and slightly better loot than the warp-in area. Both rooms - warp-in and second room - count as individual Hunt Data Relay site in regards to The Agencies campaign task, so fully resolving a single Event Data site will net up to 30 Points on the reward line.
Advanced Huntmaster Data Relay sites follow the same structure as standard sites but are more difficult, especially the second room, whose cans are of red 120(?) difficulty.
These cans, however, contain significantly more loot than their standard Event site brothers, in one case loot of up to a 15th Tier Overseer´s Personal effects is confirmed.
Loot
Known loot drops for standard event Data sites are:
- 5th-7th Tier Overseer´s Personal Effects, which can be sold to CONCORD NPC buy orders; the second room also drops 8th Tier Effects as well
- Fireworks (Ace of Podhunters variant)
- Abyssal Filaments
- Various standard Data site industry stuff of little value, often related to the Guristas Pirate faction
- Rarely, volatile (time limited) Event Boosters
- Very rarely, Ship SKINS and Guristas Apparel (Hunters Quiver, Guristas, 'Fatal Elite')
Overall, the value of the individual cans in the warp-in area rarely exceeds 1 million ISK and is often about half of that sum, and varies in the second room between 1 and 2 million ISK, tending towards the lower end.
Additionally, the main part of a cans´ loot value is oftentimes taken up by the Overseer´s Personal Effects which can quickly bring an exploration ships´ cargohold to its limits.
Hunt Data Relay
Warp-in /First Room
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Agency campaign
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| Crack the Capsule | Locate and destroy a mysterious capsule. |  5 points
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| Crack the Capsule repeatable |
Locate and destroy 5 mysterious capsules. | 10 points
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| Hop on the Hunt Combat 1/3 |
Enter a Guristas Hunt Outpost site in high-security, low-security or null-security space. | 5 points
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| Hop on the Hunt Combat 2/3 |
Destroy 5 non-capsuleer enemies while in Guristas Hunt Outpost site. | 10 points
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| Hop on the Hunt Combat 3/3 repeatable |
Destroy the Guristas Jackdaw when it arrives in the second room of a Guristas Hunt Outpost site. | 15 points
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| Sniff out the Secrets Exploration 1/2 repeatable |
Scan down and enter a Hunt Data Relay site. You will need a data analyzer module and a probe scanner for the task ahead. | 5 points
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| Sniff out the Secrets Exploration 2/2 repeatable |
Hack into a Hunt or Huntmasters Communications Tower or Mainframe and discover what secrets it hides.(4x) | 10 points
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| Points | Icon | Reward |
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| 50 | 32px | Hunt Probing Booster II |
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Pontifex Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 150 | 32px | Hunt Rapid Repair Booster II |
| 200 |  |
Bifrost Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 250 | 32px | Hunt Drone Precision Booster II |
| 300 |  |
Stork Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 350 | 32px | Hunt Missile Damage Booster II |
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Magus Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 450 | 32px | Hunt Pursuit Booster II |
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Scythe Fleet Issue Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 550 | 32px | Hunt Resistance Booster II |
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Vexor Navy Issue Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 650 | 32px | Hunt Missile Velocity Booster II |
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Omen Navy Issue Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 750 | 32px | Hunt Drone Damage Booster II |
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Stabber Fleet Issue Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 850 | Hunt Booster Crate | |
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Gila Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
| 950 | 2x Hunt Booster Crate |
Login campaign
The Hunt Daily Gifts is a login campaign that ran alongside The Hunt. The campaign rewards SKINs, Boosters, and 40,000 Skill Points for Alpha clones with 80,000 more Skill Points for Omega clones.
| Day | For Alpha Accounts | Additional for Omega |
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| 1 |  5,000 Skill Points |
 Hunt YC124 Acceleration Gate Key
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| 2 | Moa Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
10,000 Skill Points
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| 3 | 32px Hunt Probing Booster I |  Worm Versus Redforce SKIN
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| 4 | Scythe Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
32px Hunt Rapid Repair Booster I |
| 5 | 10,000 Skill Points |
 20,000 Skill Points
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| 6 | Omen Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
 Gila Versus Blueforce SKIN
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| 7 | 32px Hunt Pursuit Booster I | 32px Hunt Drone Precision Booster I |
| 8 | Vexor Hunter's Quiver SKIN |
32px Hunt Missile Velocity Booster I |
| 9 | 32px Hunt Resistance Booster I | Rattlesnake Versus Redforce SKIN
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| 10 | 25,000 Skill Points |
 50,000 Skill Points
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Mysterious Shuttle
There has been a sighting in the Geztic system in the Khanid region of a 'Mysterious Shuttle' floating near the sun, attempts to destroy it has failed as it has a crazy amount of HP, it can be seen as a Celestial Beacon in your overview.
